Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-20

" stunning fear and haste, proceed her lips
TO smother. Then take that rare delightful
bout OF thrilling sweetness "lOng-drawn out
and kiss her for her mother.
Carl T ylOr.
The fair young miss awaits the full bloom
of the social season with eager expectancy.
To her the days pass in slow procession,
and the hours to be made gay with count
less pleasures rest deep in the lap of the
future. Daily she marks of with a firm
hand and exultant heart the dates on the
statiOner's card. She is young. But not
so her sister. She was eighteen once.
When? What matters it when. 1t was
more than five years ago. To her the
coming season is of little interest. 1t can
be naught save a repetition of past winters
the same old round of dances, dinners,
teas, receptions, musicales. theatre parties
and concerts. The!days speed apace, and
the calendar is a bore. She is no longer
young.
True, then, it is that things are a great
deal as we regard them, for we estimate
length and breadth, color and form, much
from the standard of our individual per-
ception.
But youth gladdens the heart and causes
it to glow by the magnetic influence OF its
soft, warm beauty. SO the universal heart
is inclined teuderly to joyous maidens, who
impatiently wait the coming of the season
when the very air, to them, is enljvened
with the stirring cadences of the waltz and
laden with the perfume of offertory roses.
Yes, indeed, the season is about upon us,
the air is rife with rumors of coming
events-a marriage or two, a German pos
sibly, and several lesser affairs. And, by
the way, isn't it about time to start the
season off in good shape with a ball, say at
the Mcclure. The girls rather expect
something Of the sort, and the young men
have of late been so dilatory in such mat
tiers that it really looks as if it might be-
come chronic, which would never do.
For the coming week we have Thanks
giving and the various pleasures it brings,
to look forward to, which, coupled with
the appearance of the Conried Opera Com
pany at the Opera House on the afternoon
and evening Of that day, gives to it a
prospect brighter han usual. There are
talks of opera parties without number
large and small-but all will be enjoyable.
And weddings. While we have had but
few the past week, the season, taken az a
whole up to the present time, has been
very prolific of marriage ties, and the fu-
ture is promising. 1t il said that this
wedding fever in the melancholy days
breaks out every seven years, so ac-
cording to this saying those who
are not married had better hurry the nup-
tials or be doomed to wait seven long years.
But really there is no cause to get Hurried
over this matter. l think that the reason
of the unusual number of marriages this
fall is that people are coming to realize
that autumn is the only true season in
which to be married, and that this custom
of marrying in the fall will hereafter be
extensively followed there is no doubt.
The ministers may look for Just sucha rush
next season.
Here is an eastern novelty in the way of
serving q luncheon that while it is rather
elaborate and costly, is certainly beautiful.
1t was recently given by a Buffalo lady
with great success. Just before a call to
the dining hall a large beautifully painted
silk bag in the shape of a heart was brought
in, from which dangled different colored
ribbons which each young lady was in
vited to take and on her choice would de-
pend her fortune, At the end Of each rib
don was found a daintily painted
paper heart containing verses from
Cupid telling q fortune to each maiden.
The center of the luncheon table was
graced by a huge heart Of roses with an ar
row Of violets piercing its flowers. Over
this was suspended Cupid himself, and
here and there on the table were distribut-
ed smaller Cupids, each with a load Of fra
grant roses. The ices were served in hearts
of roses, and the desert was cream in the
form of hearts. During the luncheon q
cake surmounted by a heart was brought
IN, and each guest was invited to cut a
slice, in one of which was found o dainty
gold bangle. Later the silken heart, trans
formed into satchet bag, wa given to the
guest Of honor.
Gentlemen's collars will be worn both
with a broken point and straight with q
narrow space. or the two latest importa-
tions one has q very wide space with the
points broken, and the other a very par-
row space with simply the edge broken. A
very similar collar was worn last season,
the radical difference beng that the points
Of last seasons collar were heavier. Link
cuffs only will be worn, the square cuff
being the most popular.
Why couldn't Wheeling give q grand
charity ball. Start to agitate it q month
or so before its occurrence and give all q
chance to prepare themselves. II would
be anticipated with much pleasure and q
neat sum could be realized upon it. Let's
have the ball by all means.
An article of interest to the ladies will
be found in to-day's supplement- from the
pen of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in which she
speaks of the use Of cosmetics, and of
nidze-up women as wives. She tells what
preserves feminine beauty and what de-